21 motifs match “height”  ·  back to the chapters

• Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
• Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time. A1156
• Bat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basket. B542.1.2
• Measuring worm rescues from a height. B542.1.3
• Magic measurement (height of Christ). D1273.4
• Magic staves enable man to gain precipitous height. (Cf. D1254.) D1539.3
• Ghost's strength waxes and wanes with height of fire. D1836.1
• Insanity of princess dependent on height of fire. (Cf. D2064.2.) D2065.4
• Magic heightening of mountain. D2152.4
• Sea piles up to height of sixteen hundred miles. F931.10
• River piles up to a height of three hundred miles. F932.8.6
• Witch causes person to fall from height. G269.13
• Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
• Telling their horses apart. One fool docks the tail of his horse; the horse of the second gets tail caught in gate, is docked too. One notches ear of his horse; the second horse notches its ear on the fence. Finally they measure heights of their horses. The black horse is two inches taller than the white. J2722
• Hero sewed up in animal hide so as to be carried to height by bird. K1861.1
• Sham miracle: may the grass grow up! Tricksters who have done no mowing say to their master when he angers them, "May the grass grow up again!" He finds it is full height. K1975
• King vainly attempts to measure the height of the sky and the depth of the sea. L414.1
• Curse given from a height. Will fall with full effect on objects at which it is aimed. M413.1
• Murder by throwing from height. S127
• Person falls from great height without injury. X1731.1
• Man falls from height, goes into solid rock up to knees. X1731.2